Firecracker thrown at Israeli reporter in Berlin

Antonia Yamin was filming a report on Brexit for Israeli public broadcaster KAN when attacked

A reporter for the Israeli public broadcaster KAN was attacked in Berlin on Sunday evening while filming a report on the street.

Antonia Yamin, the Europe correspondent for KAN, was speaking to the camera in Hebrew in the Neukölln neighborhood of Berlin when a rowdy group of four teenagers passed by. At first they attempted to disrupt her broadcast, shouting and blocking the camera. Yamin paused and asked the group to move along. The video then shows her running after one of the men who threw a firecracker at her and her cameraman. The firecracker is then seen burning on the sidewalk.

“The truth is I had a very nice day at work today,” Yamin tweeted on Sunday evening with a video of the incident. “But between one interview and another I had to stop to report about the Brexit deal. As you can see on the video you can’t report in Hebrew in Neukölln, Berlin without being disturbed and without people throwing firecrackers at you.”

The Neukölln neighborhood is known for having a high concentration of immigrants.

Yamin told The Jerusalem Post on Monday that she didn’t report the incident to the police.

“I had an interview afterwards and I am filming the whole week,” she wrote via a direct message. “I also don’t think that it will bring me anywhere to sit for a few hours at the police station.”

Yamin said she won’t let the incident change anything about how she will report in the future.

“Fifteen minutes after the incident I was already filming my next story,” she said, “about an Israeli drag queen who performs together with a Syrian belly dancer (a wonderful story about friendship).”